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Feb. 21st, 2008 by Al

                                             
Screensaving is not actually saving emergy on your Mac/PC the last study shown.Basically designed to prevent phosphor burn in on the CRT(cathode ray tube) computer screens.Filled in images when computers are not used but it does consume energy as the study proved.

2 ways to save energy to limt the use of screensavers:

a)A screensaver not only draw power for the monitor but keep the CPU from shutting down so better put it to sleep mode instead.

b)Use flat screen monitors as they use less energy and not hard on your eyes.

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